Paying Attention

The national nightmare continues. A sitting president is under a huge cloud of suspicion for wrongdoing – both in his campaign to achieve office, and in misusing his power before and after attaining the presidency. The facts are many. The circumstances appear right. The facts are not yet known by the public.

Someone knows the facts. Several people know them. The public only has the Special Prosecutor and his team working for them. All the others in the know are part of the problem. They know what is fact and/or fiction. They know what was intended and what was accidental. If by accident, it is still a factual wrongdoing if no attempt to correct it was made.

Fact. Fiction. This is what we are dealing with. People uncovering the bits and pieces to determine what the court system can use and which bits are not usable. And then we have the people covering it all up, wanting the public to think something other than what the facts are.

We will be honest here. We do not know the facts. Yet. But they are coming. Soon.

Then we will need to sort through it all and discern what it all means.

A court system and process will do much of this work. But the principal players in this drama will strut the stage and attempt to make their own meanings. They are trying to save something. Their name. Their reputation. Their freedom and legal fees.

The rest of us are trying to save a nation – its reputation, its name.

And that is what is important. Will America be known as the sleaze machine driven by greed and the lowest common denominator? Or will it strive to be known as principled, truthful and honorable?

At this time of history, the hammer could fall to one side or the other. It is up to all of us to make it fall on the right side of history. Not political. Not ideological. But right, as in correct.

Where else would we Americans want it to be?

December 12, 2018